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<blockquote data-quote="soilbug" data-source="post: 7399310" data-attributes="member: 3925"><p>Danllan is spot on - industrialists and developers and anyone with a bright accountant advising them will roll capital into farmland to reduce capital gains tax and inheritance tax to bugger up the sustainability of genuine farmers trying to expand or become more viable.</p><p></p><p>A coservative government is always careful not to upset possible party donors (big house and pheasant shoot in the home counties?) in the same way that it keeps food cheap by letting the supermarkets screw suppliers and food manufacturers, knowing they in turn can screw the primary producer - the farmer - because he is kept on life support from farm subsidies. This is changing because, in order to grow field crops, farmers have to invest or lease huge ammounts in machinery and fertiliser/spray supplements and then do all the work themselves. They are learning that meeting new 'ecology/wildlife conditions makes the payments not worth the hastle and loss of acreage. There are better returns from investing capital off-farm; stick and dog the land and enjoy a better lifestyle. Boris isn't business-canny to notice we will remain dependent on imported food (and all the covid et al risks that involves) until the next world cyberwar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soilbug, post: 7399310, member: 3925"] Danllan is spot on - industrialists and developers and anyone with a bright accountant advising them will roll capital into farmland to reduce capital gains tax and inheritance tax to bugger up the sustainability of genuine farmers trying to expand or become more viable. A coservative government is always careful not to upset possible party donors (big house and pheasant shoot in the home counties?) in the same way that it keeps food cheap by letting the supermarkets screw suppliers and food manufacturers, knowing they in turn can screw the primary producer - the farmer - because he is kept on life support from farm subsidies. This is changing because, in order to grow field crops, farmers have to invest or lease huge ammounts in machinery and fertiliser/spray supplements and then do all the work themselves. They are learning that meeting new 'ecology/wildlife conditions makes the payments not worth the hastle and loss of acreage. There are better returns from investing capital off-farm; stick and dog the land and enjoy a better lifestyle. Boris isn't business-canny to notice we will remain dependent on imported food (and all the covid et al risks that involves) until the next world cyberwar. [/QUOTE]
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